She's Waiting

But here’s the thing about her: we get why she does what she does and we totally support it, 100 %. In a world of Britneys and Mileys, we need a Lady Gaga. So, good for her. More, please. But let’s not treat this as something new or groundbreaking. The world of entertainment - and especially the world of pop music - always produces, at least once a decade, someone like this; someone who wants to flaunt all conventions; who wants to go out looking as insane as she can possibly look in order to get people to look at her and talk about her. And these figures almost always come up through the ranks of the club scene or the punk scene or the drag scene or even the hippy scene. In other words, it’s about taking elements from the fringe or the counterculture and shoving them in front of the eyes of the public where everyone can ooh and ahh and call her crazy and call her an artist. Like we said, we support and admire what she’s doing; we just don’t get why every time - EVERY SINGLE TIME a figure like her comes along, the press and the public treats her like something new. She’s not doing anything new, but what she is doing, she’s doing well.

So how many years has it been since the Loving case that made it legal for black/white couples to marry in the United States? And how long has Bardwell been a justice of the peace denying interracial couples the right to marry the person they love? This judge, whether he realizes it or not, is essentially telling the offspring of interracial couplings that they are cultural bastards who have no home when that simply is not true. While there may be different challenges for a biracial child, to assume that whites and blacks are simply incapable of accepting biracial children is both ignorant and ridiculous.

I have biracial people in my family, I have biracial friends and I went to school with children of all backgrounds. To argue that these kids lives are so hampered by their ethnicity that they shouldn’t have been born it’s not only offensive, it is outrageous. Based on this argument, all black people should stop having kids because their children may experience racism and not be accepted by the majority culture. The judge makes no sense. But of course he doesn’t. He’s operating under limited, racist and retrograde thinking. It’s beyond ignorant and I hope the ACLU is successful in getting this cultural dinosaur off the bench.